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by ferongr 13y ago
I don't see any indications of coordinated trolling in that thread but rather, a lively discussion about Fish, his antics and Fez.
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by ferongr 13y ago
Cable-operated disc brakes on bikes have almost the same stopping power as V-Brakes. Their advantages are different, including their more protected location (less mud/water, ideal for off-road applications) and the different mounting c
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by ferongr 13y ago
>This is a sad comment on the state of consumer hardware And also incorrect. A system crashing on a combined Linpack/Furmark load is defective or contains a defective component. Even extremely thermally-limited laptops do not suffer
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by ferongr 13y ago
That's a really bad way of implementing an opt-out. No account-wide opt-out preventing your data from not leaving AT&T's servers. Instead, cookies set up by a (probably) sleazy brand management company. If my ISP did this I&#x
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by ferongr 13y ago
They live with their parents.
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by ferongr 13y ago
No they won't. I doubt Linux users could be able to use Linux CDMs to decrypt EME content because they probably won't be released.
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by ferongr 13y ago
Vector performance is still abysmal in browsers (apparently there's no vector benchmark used by the press to pressure vendors) so it's no wonder maps are served as prerendered images. Even Google Maps WebGL implementation that only uses vec
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by ferongr 14y ago
How can you recommend Audacious for Windows users? At this point it's nothing more than a half-working port. It can't seek files, render non-latin characters or even follow OS Cleartype settings (it renders text with no AA at all).
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by ferongr 14y ago
I use FB2k too, though I had to adapt to its creator's hate for the "Now Playing" list, forcing media library browsers to maintain playlists instead.
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by ferongr 14y ago
If "standards of 1998" means proper parsing and display of metadata in various character sets from various sources (local file, internet streams etc), wide input format support, gapless playback and Replaygain support, relatively low resour
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by ferongr 14y ago
Instead of bloggers and "journalists" complaining about a service they do not pay for, they should do the only thing they can. Delete their accounts. I saw the writing on the wall 3 years ago and did it. I was not worse off afterwards. Pass
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by ferongr 14y ago
>that would have been super rude. Don't you think? As long as the license allows it and the maintainer is not burdened in any way, no?
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by ferongr 14y ago
Obviously, they already are. The LO installer places them into %windir%\Fonts during installation
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by ferongr 14y ago
FWIW I just updated LibreOffice to 4.0.1.2 from 4.0.0 and cannot reproduce the issue with the steps in the bugzilla link so there may be some additional requirement for the bug to surface. Possibly a GPU from a specific manufacturer?
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by ferongr 14y ago
The brief specs are only one part of the puzzle. The dongle, like many smartphones could most likely suffer from gimped flash interface and channels, low RAM speeds and slow USB (making accessing data on external HDDs painfully slow). Furth
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by ferongr 14y ago
It's a bit disingenuous to make such a claim. The bar is essentially the same since browsers execute all, 1st and 3rd-party JS by default. Loading a document is enough. For a web-browser it's quite rare to make requests without completing t
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by ferongr 14y ago
Well, trackers will just switch to using localstorage instead since the preference doesn't affect it [1] and it pops up no permission dialog. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536509
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HTML whitespace "compression" - don't bother(peterbe.com)
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by ferongr 14y ago
When it comes to Chrome, in many cases it's not even conscious or explicit user choice. Chrome is aggressively pushed as opt-out shovelware with installers of unrelated software (e.g. CCleaner) and is set up as the default browser if the us
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by ferongr 14y ago
I'm not really sure I could tell them apart in an ABX test. But it's not like the game is demanding in any way. The amount of sprites is way too low and they're all bitmaps. Furthermore, you don't need the webaudio api to playback an audio
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by ferongr 14y ago
The blog's text looks fine for me on a 95DPI monitor using Firefox on Windows 7. It looks quite bad on a recent Chromium build but that's to be expected for Webfonts rendered in Chrom* running on Windows.
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by ferongr 14y ago
Thank you for mentioning Brogue, from a couple of levels I went through I found it very approachable (both in UI and gameplay) yet not shallow.
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by ferongr 14y ago
I don't know what Firefox does on GNU/Linux or OSX but on Windows 7 with DirectWrite, applying transformations to subpixel-AA'ed text is very fast and has excellent fidelity.
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by ferongr 14y ago
Mass Effect "lore" tries to justify graphical rule of cool (displays projected into thin air with a few shades of orange as their only colors etc.). I wouldn't take it seriously as something exploring the practicality of such things.
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by ferongr 14y ago
I did a single Octane run on each for my own amusement. Totally unscientific methodology but the results are good enough for me. Chromium is v. 27.0.1424.0 rev 184630 (probably the latest build) from a zipfile (Google makes it practically i
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by ferongr 14y ago
Refactoring 4 years old PHP that spits out quirks mode table-layed HTML via echo... shudder .
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by ferongr 14y ago
Well, according to the logs we don't get requests from Google or other kinds of bots so it works for our use case.
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by ferongr 14y ago
>if you remove spam, what's the use of nofollow? To prevent a search engine from poking around links and executing actions meant from human beings. I help someone manage a small online music stream with automatically queued user request
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by ferongr 14y ago
There's almost no fringing in Firefox's text (and Mozilla devs went through a lot of pain trying to find good defaults for DirectWrite text in the post Fx4 days) but there's quite a bit in IE's text (see the "k" and "a" letters). Chrome's t
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by ferongr 14y ago
Obviously it's a metaphorical loaded gun.

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